The Day Family were anglo Indian traders, on the Navajo
Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers
of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian
Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); and of their children, Charles L.
Day (1879-1918), Samuel Day, Jr. (1889-1944), United States deputy Marshall. The
collection includes information on Navajo culture, stories and legends; the looting of
Canyon del Muerta, and the Frank Dugan murder. The collection also contains 91
photographs depicting trading posts and eastern Arizona scenes.

Dorothea Cross Leighton (1908-1989) and Alexander H. Leighton
(1908-2007), both physicians, were in training in psychiatry when they set out to collect
information concerning life problems of Native Americans and Native means of dealing
with such problems. They spent January to May, 1940 with a Navajo family south of Gallup,
New Mexico.
This collection contains:
five handwritten field journals from the Navajo study; original manuscript materials
with some carbon copies; a few Rorschach tests; carbon copies of life stories, related
by eight individuals, which were extracted from the 1940 field journals; and
approximately 200 black and white photographs, a few negatives, colored slides, and
tapes of an English language program.

The Navajo Environmental Issues Collection pertains to environmental issues important to the Navajo Nation. The collection consists of correspondence, pamphlets, and articles on topics ranging from asbestos dumps to water issues.

This collection consists of two parts -- archival records
generated by the organization throughout it's existence and materials generated for
historical posterity prior to the organization going out of business. The association
was an organization of traders from the Navajo and Hopi reservations, many of the New
Mexico Pueblos, and business people affiliated with the Indian Arts and Crafts business.
Included in the collection is correspondence, legal files, business meeting documents,
photographs and oral histories.